The initial gold-buying frenzy may have passed, but many jewelers continue to buy estate and scrap jewelry from consumers on a regular basis.

If you’re one of those who continue to have success with purchasing scrap metals over the counter, know that it’s not without risk. Keep this advice for buying scrap in mind to help make all of your transactions as smooth as possible:

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It’s something you do every day … many days without thinking. You go to work, unlock the door, and disable the alarm. You set about your business like clockwork, preparing for the day. When the day is done, you put your goods in the safe or vault, set the alarm, lock the doors, and leave. You could do this in your sleep!

When your business is closed, you depend on your burglar alarm system to notify you of any unauthorized attempt to enter your premises. An alarm condition signal immediately captures your attention and that of others on your call list — as well as that of local law enforcement and your monitoring company, which may dispatch a guard to investigate.

Consider these scenarios and what your response would be:

There’s a belief in the jewelry industry that there’s nothing that can be done to prevent some crimes, especially robberies. Crime statistics and research tell a different story. 

Those facts will tell us that nearly all jewelry crime is preceded by some type of “casing” or surveillance.